Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one. There is a way to understand
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.